#wikis

[bornt-urnge]

⚠️ Fandom is Moving Forward with Generative AI ⚠️

As of December 15, Fandom has announced their plans to continue using AI to "enhance" their articles.

In short, they claim to have primarily used AI to

Scan images for "appropriateness" (be that NSFW content or just fitting in with the theme of the show), which still involves scraping tons of images and comparing them to a potentially unethically sourced database. As with all machine learning using images, it is still wildly inaccurate.

Optimizing edits - something they admit is still severely lacking because it can't read tables or variants on simple things like "birthday"

Optimizing SEO - this is clearly what they care most about, since Google likes the "Quick Answers" - as shitty as they were - this means they can continue to dominate the search results and gain more ad revenue.

This is a good time to remember that Fandom is a for-profit company with inverstors, which means their end goal is always to make the most money possible. They don't care about "The Fans" (despite the lip service), and they don't care about the authenticity of user-generated content if they can figure out how to automate the process.

STOP USING FANDOM.

Alternatives/Workarounds:

Indie Wiki Buddy is an extension that will redirect you to non-Fandom versions of wikis if it's in their database.

BreezeWiki displays all Fandom wikis in a clean, ad-free format with just the article content (no links to their forums, autoplay videos, etc)

If you must use Fandom, install UBlock Origin. It's available on all desktop browsers and Firefox Mobile. Hit them where it hurts. And encourage the wiki teams to leave Fandom if they can.

Also, be sure to support independent wikis! You can disable adblockers while on their sites, as they usually have much less obtrusive ads which directly fund server maintenance rather than CEO salaries. Change links on your posts/pages to direct to non-Fandom Wikis (even wiki.gg is better).

Keep information free from corporatization.

#Fandom #Wikis #Anti-ai #fuck ai everything #anti capitalism #anti corporations

[500tabsopenatonce-500tabso-pen]

Yeah, I think we have all the Concepts covered.

#woe.begone #w.bg #miraheze #wikis #cowboys

[prokopetz]

The thing I enjoy about Lower Decks is that, up until now, the wiki curators who are determined to shoehorn every piece of Star Trek lore into a single coherent universe mostly only had to do bullshit worldbuilding gymnastics to make that work when dealing with the Original Series, a couple of the more egregious Star Trek: Voyager episodes, and some of the novels, and in a pinch they could get away with declaring the novels "secondary canon" – but now Lower Decks is throwing them multiple unhinged curveballs in every single episode, and the wiki articles are getting interesting again.

#media #television #animation #cartoons #star trek #star trek: lower decks #lower decks #fandom #wikis #worldbuilding #swearing

[theimaginatrix27]

To anyone in the position to edit future non-fandom wikis, from a blind fan

I have run up against this issue on the Star Trek Fandom wiki (I know Fandom is bad, if there's an alternative wiki for the Star Trek franchise please please point me to it), but I hope anyone else who edits/will edit any wikis for (particularly live-action) fandoms will hear my plea.

On behalf of all blind fans, I implore you:

When creating/editing a character's page, provide a physical description of them.

Yes, even if there are pictures. Blind people can't see those. Alt text for those pictures would also be nice because screen-readers can read alt text, and it's not always visible to a sighted person who just wants to check a thing real quick.

Yes, even if they basically look like the actor playing them. We also cannot see what actors look like, funnily enough.

Yes, even if you think some things are obvious. You never know what someone might have missed when watching the show/movie or playing the game/watching a let's play. Especially if they're blind/low-vision viewers.

Yes, even if you personally find it annoying. Wikis are an excellent reference if done well, and can be very helpful for reminding people of stuff, and for helping blind fans like myself know what something looks like, so long as the description is there. We find it annoying when there isn't all the information on a wiki page there could be.

Sincerely, a blind Treky who has looked up the pages for several characters on the Star Trek wiki this past week to try and find out for suresies what those characters looked like, only to find there was no physical description section. The races get them, which is great and mostly helpful (but why do they talk about Cardassians having grey skin most of the time instead of scales? I got tripped up by that—though not in anything I've posted yet thankfully!). But that only gets you so far for specific characters! I can't keep relying on fanfics and the kindness of sighted friends with lives who can't always be reached when I need the information to find out for certain what colour Miles O'Brien's eyes are, or Kira Nerys's hair, and sometimes fanfics aren't accurate about descriptions, and I could be basing my entire perception of a character on something I read in a fic once! And I won't know if I can't look it up!

#Star Trek #ST:DS9 #deep space 9 #Wikis #Wiki Info #Character Descriptions #Actuallyblind #Blind Fan

[where-the-stars-fell-wiki]

Having no visual representations of a character makes sourcing images for a wiki hard. A lot of times, you rely on fanart unless the show has the occasional artwork they provide.

In this rare instance, internet treasure Brian David Gilbert already looks like Jesus. I see this as a win.

#brian david gilbert #where the stars fell #wikis #podcasts #wtsf #wtsf podcast #wtsf spoilers #where the stars fell spoilers

[betterdonutgalaxy]

hey before I do this is anyone else tryna make a bugsnax wiki thats separate from fandom

#bugsnax #wiki #wikis #fuck fandom #fandom

[fandom-official]

Here are the top 🔟 anime people were searching for last year 💥

#anime #wikis #fandom #fandom wikis #one piece #naruto #yu-gi-oh #dragon ball #my hero academia #jojo's bizarre adventure #attack on titan #danganrompa #fairy tail #black clover #fandoms #2023

[starberryroad]

I love you

#sonadow #egg #man #sandwich #i'm so hungry #did i have dinner #i did #i had a pizza #who wants to go into work for me tomorrow #RoboWiki #Wiki Content #Community #FANDOM #Fan Central BETA #Games #Anime #Movies #TV #Video #Wikis #Start a Wiki #Sign In #Register #2 #107 #pages #in: Non-Robots #Robot Creators #Video Game Characters #i miss her

[neverlix]

PSA to, uh, the world I suppose!

The Minecraft Wiki has officially forked! It's at minecraft.wiki now!

As for why it's moved, the editors have agreed that Fandom kind of sucks, due to reasons such as an overwhelming number of ads, very little customization of the wiki's appearance, annoying pop ups upon loading into any page, weird stuff with AI, that one time they were paid to replace article content, and the fact that they just do not seem honest!

The other reason a lot of people dislike Fandom is the fact that if a wiki wants to leave, they will not delete the old wiki. This is why moving off of Fandom is called 'forking', since instead of truly moving, the wiki forks into two branches, the old Fandom one and the new one. (In this case hosted by Weird Gloop, also known as the people who host the independent RuneScape Wiki!)

That's where everyone can help! The greatest challenge the new wiki will face is SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Fandom's SEO is huge, particularly due to the way Google treats anything with the same domain as one website, and since all of Fandom ends with '.fandom.com', all the traffic to their various different wikis means that the old Minecraft Wiki will show up really high in search results. What you can do to help is simply make sure you go to the new one of you ever visit it! Either bookmark it, or if you're searching, say, "Minecraft villager" take the few seconds to scroll down to minecraft.wiki!

Of course, editing and contributing to the new wiki will help, too, if you're interested, but you can still make a difference just by viewing the wiki.

Another sidenote is, no matter how much you want to, don't try to go and vandalize the old wiki or anything. That won't do anything but get you banned from Fandom, make the new wiki look bad, and, by going to the site, increase Fandom's SEO.

Anyways, that's all I've got to say, so have a great day!

#minecraft #wikis #minecraft wiki #fandom #fandom wikis #oh fyi I'm not like official or anything i was just interested in the forking process and thought tumblr should know about it

[tcm464]

#kira's corner #games #wikis #memes #ultrakill #risk of rain 2 #gotta be one of my favorite genders #there's only two examples because those are the only ones i knew

[lizardsfromspace]

Do you ever think about how the US intelligence agencies have a wiki. I don't mean a site in the form of a wiki, I mean a straight-up wiki anyone can edit. It's called Intellipedia. According to FOIA requests the homepage looks like this

I don't even want to know about all the Dark Government Secrets contained therein, I just want to know what it's like over there. What are the edit wars like on CIA Wikipedia? According to non-CIA Wikipedia, they not only allow opinion in articles, but let even low-ranking people insert opinions into articles, which is objectively bonkers and like. I want to see the talk page scandals

#wikis #wikipedia #internet

[wjbs-aus]

Honestly, even if there's a non-Fandom (the company) Cruelty Squad wiki, I'll still use the Fandom version. It, like, fits with the game's aesthetic and themes to have the page covered in ads for other, unrelated wikis.

#cruelty squad #wikis

[prokopetz]

Sometimes you look at the previews for a piece of forthcoming media and you're seized by the crystal-clear certainty that this thing is going to have synopses on the fandom wiki that take longer to read than the actual episodes to which they pertain.

#media #television #fandom #wikis

[where-the-stars-fell-wiki]

Forgot about this line lol. I immediately added it to the episode six page on the WTSF wiki.

#where the stars fell #wtsf #wtsf podcast #podcasts #wikis #where the stars fell quotes

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout Wiki: Founders Day (1 Year Anniversary)

Good evening to all you wastelanders out there! Today is a monumental occasion for all of us at the Independent Fallout Wiki. Today is Founder's Day! One year ago from today on April 8, 2022, our wiki was officially founded!

We are incredibly proud of how far we have come. What started as a simple fork turned into something much, much bigger and greater, and we're happy to have the support of the amazing community for the Fallout series. Let's look back at some of the notable milestones since our founding!

On May 22, 2022, we officially started our Modspace; a custom namespace that allows Fallout mods, such as The Frontier, New California, The Bleachers and Tale of Two Wastelands, to be documented properly and concisely!

On October 28, 2022, we officially created our Communityspace; another customs namespaces that allows the Fallout community to create pages for fan works and to upload fan works, such as fanfiction, fanart, user generated content, comics, TTRPG documents, fan films, and much, much more!

We've affiliated with the likes of other, amazing independent wikis, such as The Doom Wiki, Combine OverWiki, JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia, Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, Strategy Wiki, Otherkin Wiki and our French counterpart Les Archives de Vault-Tec, as well as joining independent wiki alliances, such as the Gaming Wiki Network and Square Enix Independent Wiki Alliance!

We launched the wiki officially on December 31, 2022, with an amazing amount of support and cheers from all around the community!

Also on the day of our launch, we began our community project to feature Fallout fanart on the wiki dubbed Pickman's Gallery. So far, we've featured art from @auntie-murdoc, @milramemo, Overshia, and Turtle, with many more lovely artists to come!

Since launch, we've surpassed 500 followers on Tumblr and 1700 followers on Twitter! Our Discord has also surpassed 600 members!

And those are just some of the many milestones we've attained since launch! We even have a page for all of our Milestones, which you can check out here:

We're so happy to have made it as far as we have, and we only see a brighter future ahead. Thanks to everyone for all the overwhelming support and love. We sincerely appreciate all of it! We hope you will continue to support us, even 200 years into the future (assuming total atomic annihilation hasn't occurred)! That's all we had to say! Have a good night wastelanders.

END OF BROADCAST

#fallout wiki #independent fallout wiki #independent wikis #wiki #fallout #fallout 2 #fallout 3 #fallout new vegas #fallout 4 #fallout 76 #fallout community #gaming wiki network #fallout mods #wikis #fallout fanart #fallout wiki fanart #fallout series

[betterdonutgalaxy]

Wikis that NEED to move away from fandom to my knowledge

- Bugsnax

- My Singing Monsters

Please, oh my god dont use fandom for this shit anymore, MOVE!!!!

#bugsnax #my singing monsters #fandom #fuck fandom #wiki #wikis